I shoot on average 30 pheasants a year, I hunt with my brother (niceshot) who shoots over 100 pheasants a year. We both shoot Beretta 686 over-unders with a single selective trigger. These guns have worked fine for us for many years. However, we have experience on a number of occasions where the gun will not reset for the second shot. This problem seems to be more acute when wearing thick gloves and/or when your fingers are too numb from cold to feel the trigger or safety. It has even happened for myself a couple of times in warmer weather. We both know from experience and testing our guns with light target loads, that most of the problem is due to operator error. In other words, we either incorrectly mount the gun and/or grip so tightly with shooting hand that we aren't releasing trigger to allow for reset. Through my own reading and research as I look at this problem being discussed, most of the discussion is not in a hunting context but rather sporting clays. Where most of the conversation talks about failure to fire (FTF) on the first shot. This is not the problem we are experiencing while hunting, the problem is not resetting for the second shot. What my brother in particular is wondering is if switching to mechanical triggers would help the situation, or are mechanical triggers, like inertia triggers, that a certain amount of release on the trigger is required for them to fire correctly. I've read that both Riley and Cole gun smithing for $100-$150 will change you're triggers. At that price range I'm guessing what they are actually doing is merely changing a heavy inertia trigger to a light inertia trigger. Kolar for about $400-$500 will actually replace the trigger with mechanical. As I've stated above, the problem is often in the operation, not the gun itself, but I am wondering if anyone else has experienced this and if mechanical triggers have or could help.
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